AuthorTopic: [SOLVED] bank of america blocks linux? (Read 5948 times)

I can no longer connect to their website with any of the 3 broswers on VL5.9. For example Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090411 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 I get the following error "Bad request Your browser sent a query this server could not understand. "

Idownloaded the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 and get the same error.

When I boot into windows both Internet Explorer and mozilla firefox have no problems.

This seems to be an anti-Linux effect. Can I spoof my browser to seem to be a Windows OS?I have read that it is possible but frowned upon as bad netiquette.

Yes, it is possible to make your browser say that is even Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Windows XP or a bunch of other browsers and operating systems. I know that with the Konqueror web browser you can go into (I think) Tools and change the Browser Identification to one of several combinations. There might be a plugin or something for Firefox that does that but I haven't looked.

I can get Firefox to connect to the BoA online account site, no problem. I have popups permitted for the site - but I don't think it uses them. Javascript and Java are also enabled, and it does use Javascript, if I'm not mistaken.

I can't think of any other settings that should affect this. If your settings are the same, and you are still getting the error, it seems to me that the error is in some other setting area - like the firewall, or your video settings.

I also noticed that when I start up my computer, there is a message that it has been 49,000 dayssince the drives were last checked. Fsck runs and usually there is an error about some date in thefuture.

I don think my CMOS battery is dead because I have the correct time and don't use an NTP server.But then I don understand why fsck loses track of the last time it booted correctly (49,000 days ~135 years).